Cllr. T. Negbalee Warner

                                                               Chairperson

Cllr. T. Negbalee Warner is a transparency and anti-corruption expert based in Liberia. From 2007 to 2010 he was the Head of Secretariat for the Liberia Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, and from 2003 to 2005 he was Executive Director at the Central Bank of Liberia.

Negbalee also led the drafting of Liberia’s National Anti-Corruption Policy and Strategy, as well as the Act establishing Liberia’s Anti-Corruption Commission. He is a Senior Partner at the Heritage Partners & Associates Law Firm and Dean at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law.

                                                               Mr. Kenneth Y. Best

                                                                        Member

Kenneth Yakpawolo Best is a Liberian journalist who founded the Liberian newspaper The Daily Observer and a paper of the same name in The Gambia. Mr. Best, who is affectionately called ‘KY,’ has been in the Journalism profession for more than 50 years and was called into it ever since he was in high school, by the “good Lord himself,” he has said. Despite his age of 82, he still practices the profession at the Daily Observer, which he and his “new wife” of 47 years, Mrs. Mae Gene Traub Best, established nearly 40 years ago on February 16, 1981. Over the years, he has taught, mentored, empowered, and employed many young people, especially in Liberia and The Gambia—where he relocated with his family in 1990 during the Liberian civil crises and founded The Gambia’s first independent daily and first modern newspaper, The Gambian Daily Observer. 

                                                               James A. Thompson

                                                                           Member